Magnetic skyrmion materials

Y Tokura, N Kanazawa - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Skyrmion, a concept originally proposed in particle physics half a century ago, can now find
the most fertile field for its applicability, that is, the magnetic skyrmion realized in …

Nonreciprocal responses from non-centrosymmetric quantum materials

Y Tokura, N Nagaosa - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Directional transport and propagation of quantum particle and current, such as electron,
photon, spin, and phonon, are known to occur in the materials system with broken inversion …

[HTML][HTML] Switchable chiral transport in charge-ordered kagome metal CsV3Sb5

C Guo, C Putzke, S Konyzheva, X Huang… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
When electric conductors differ from their mirror image, unusual chiral transport coefficients
appear that are forbidden in achiral metals, such as a non-linear electric response known as …

Nonreciprocal transport and optical phenomena in quantum materials

N Nagaosa, Y Yanase - Annual Review of Condensed Matter …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
In noncentrosymmetric materials, the responses (for example, electrical and optical)
generally depend on the direction of the external stimuli, called nonreciprocal phenomena …

Structural chirality and electronic chirality in quantum materials

B Yan - Annual Review of Materials Research, 2024 - annualreviews.org
In chemistry and biochemistry, chirality represents the structural asymmetry characterized by
nonsuperimposable mirror images for a material such as DNA. In physics, however, chirality …

Superconducting diode effect due to magnetochiral anisotropy in topological insulators and Rashba nanowires

HF Legg, D Loss, J Klinovaja - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
The critical current of a superconductor can depend on the direction of current flow due to
magnetochiral anisotropy when both inversion and time-reversal symmetry are broken, an …

Controllable Topological Magnetic Transformations in the Thickness-Tunable van der Waals Ferromagnet Fe5GeTe2

X Lv, K Pei, C Yang, G Qin, M Liu, J Zhang, R Che - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
Recent observations of topological meron textures in two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals
(vdW) magnetic materials have attracted considerable research interest for both …

Nonreciprocal superconducting NbSe2 antenna

E Zhang, X Xu, YC Zou, L Ai, X Dong, C Huang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The rise of two-dimensional (2D) crystalline superconductors has opened a new frontier of
investigating unconventional quantum phenomena in low dimensions. However, despite the …

In-plane anisotropic electronics based on low-symmetry 2D materials: progress and prospects

S Zhao, B Dong, H Wang, H Wang, Y Zhang… - Nanoscale …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Low-symmetry layered materials such as black phosphorus (BP) have been revived recently
due to their high intrinsic mobility and in-plane anisotropic properties, which can be used in …

Topological transitions among skyrmion-and hedgehog-lattice states in cubic chiral magnets

Y Fujishiro, N Kanazawa, T Nakajima, XZ Yu… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Manipulating topological spin textures is a key for exploring unprecedented emergent
electromagnetic phenomena. Whereas switching control of magnetic skyrmions, eg, the …